Transfection of choanoflagellates illuminates their cell biology and the ancestry of animal septins.

abstract：:I am extremely honored to be the recipient of the 2015 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award. When I reflect on my journey in science, many great people and memorable experiences come to mind. Some of these encounters were truly career-defining moments. Others provided priceless lessons. In this essay, I recount some of ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Serpe M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) are important players during neurogenesis and neurite outgrowth as well as axonal fasciculation and pathfinding. Some of these developmental processes entail the activation of cellular signaling cascades. Pharmacological and genetic evidence indicates that the neurite outgrowth-pr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Islam R,Kristiansen LV,Romani S,Garcia-Alonso L,Hortsch M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo contains abundant transcripts for two alpha- and two beta-tubulins, raising the question of whether each isoform performs specialized functions or simply contributes to total tubulin levels. Our identification of two recessive, complementing alleles of a beta-tubulin that disrup...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wright AJ,Hunter CP

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear Dbf2-related (NDR) protein kinases are essential components of regulatory pathways involved in cell morphogenesis, cell cycle control, and viability in eukaryotic cells. For their activity and function, these kinases require interaction with Mob proteins. However, little is known about how the Mob proteins are...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gutiérrez-Escribano P,González-Novo A,Suárez MB,Li CR,Wang Y,de Aldana CR,Correa-Bordes J

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetochores are the proteinaceous complexes that assemble on centromeric DNA and direct eukaryotic chromosome segregation. The mechanisms by which higher eukaryotic cells define centromeres are poorly understood. Possible molecular contributors to centromere specification include the underlying DNA sequences and epig...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Edwards NS,Murray AW

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-mediated adhesion induces several signaling pathways leading to regulation of gene transcription, control of cell cycle entry and survival from apoptosis. Here we investigate the involvement of the Janus kinase (JAK)/signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) pathway in integrin-mediated signal...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Brizzi MF,Defilippi P,Rosso A,Venturino M,Garbarino G,Miyajima A,Silengo L,Tarone G,Pegoraro L

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage fusion resulting in the formation of multinucleated giant cells occurs in a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases, yet the mechanism responsible for initiating this process is unknown. Here, we used live cell imaging to show that actin-based protrusions at the leading edge initiate macrophage fusion. Pha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Faust JJ,Balabiyev A,Heddleston JM,Podolnikova NP,Baluch DP,Chew TL,Ugarova TP

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance to desiccation in cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is inducible; only one in a million cells from an exponential culture survive desiccation compared with one in five cells in stationary phase. Here we exploit the desiccation sensitivity of exponentially dividing cells to understand the stresses imposed ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Welch AZ,Gibney PA,Botstein D,Koshland DE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myc interacting zinc finger protein-1 (Miz1) is a transcription factor known to regulate cell cycle- and cell adhesion-related genes in cancer. Here we show that Miz1 also plays a critical role in neural crest development. In the chick, Miz1 is expressed throughout the neural plate and closing neural tube. Its morphol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kerosuo L,Bronner ME

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key molecular regulatory mechanisms that govern and coordinate the molecular alterations that underpin the process of human labor remain incompletely understood although enhanced intrauterine prostaglandin production is known to be requisite. Studies from cancer tissues have indicated that at least one key enzyme ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mitchell MD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystin (PC)1 and PC2 are membrane proteins implicated in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. A physiologically relevant cleavage at PC1's G protein-coupled receptor proteolytic site (GPS) occurs early in the secretory pathway. Our results suggest that PC2 increases both PC1 GPS cleavage and PC1's appeara...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chapin HC,Rajendran V,Caplan MJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcellular targeting and the activity of facilitative glucose transporters are likely to be regulated by interactions with cellular proteins. This report describes the identification and characterization of a protein, GLUT1 C-terminal binding protein (GLUT1CBP), that binds via a PDZ domain to the C terminus of GLUT1....

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bunn RC,Jensen MA,Reed BC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae a-factor receptor (Ste3p) requires its C-terminal cytoplasmic tail for endocytosis. Wild-type receptor is delivered to the cell surface via the secretory pathway but remains there only briefly before being internalized and delivered to the vacuole for degradation. Receptors lacking all or ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Givan SA,Sprague GF Jr

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, repression of translation during stress is associated with the assembly of stress granules in the cytoplasm, which contain a fraction of arrested mRNA and have been proposed to play a role in their storage. Because physical contacts are seen with GW bodies, which contain the mRNA degradation machinery, str...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mollet S,Cougot N,Wilczynska A,Dautry F,Kress M,Bertrand E,Weil D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dog thyroid epithelial cells in primary culture constitute a physiologically relevant model of positive control of DNA synthesis initiation and G0-S prereplicative phase progression by cAMP as a second messenger for thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone [TSH]). As previously shown in this system, the cAMP-dependent...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Depoortere F,Pirson I,Bartek J,Dumont JE,Roger PP

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion of yeast vacuoles requires the Rab GTPase Ypt7p, four SNAREs (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors), the SNARE disassembly chaperones Sec17p/Sec18p, vacuolar lipids, and the Rab-effector complex HOPS (homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting). Two HOPS subunits have direct ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Orr A,Wickner W,Rusin SF,Kettenbach AN,Zick M

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to stress conditions (such as nutrient limitation or accumulation of damaged organelles) and certain pathological situations, eukaryotic cells use autophagy as a survival mechanism. During nutrient stress the main purpose of autophagy is to degrade cytoplasmic materials within the lysosome/vacuole lumen an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yang Z,Huang J,Geng J,Nair U,Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During constitutive secretion, proteins synthesized at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are transported to the Golgi complex for processing and then to the plasma membrane for incorporation or extracellular release. This study uses a unique live-cell constitutive secretion assay to establish roles for the molecular moto...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bond LM,Peden AA,Kendrick-Jones J,Sellers JR,Buss F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) receptor oligomerization has important roles in signaling. Complex formation among type I and type II (TβRI and TβRII) TGF-β receptors is well characterized and is essential for signal transduction. However, studies on their interactions with the type III TGF-β coreceptor (TβRIII) ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tazat K,Hector-Greene M,Blobe GC,Henis YI

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans unc-84 gene cause defects in nuclear migration and anchoring. We show that endogenous UNC-84 protein colocalizes with Ce-lamin at the nuclear envelope and that the envelope localization of UNC-84 requires Ce-lamin. We also show that during mitosis, UNC-84 remains at the nuclear ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee KK,Starr D,Cohen M,Liu J,Han M,Wilson KL,Gruenbaum Y

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncostatin M and cAMP signaling stimulate apical surface-directed membrane trafficking and apical lumen development in hepatocytes, both in a protein kinase A (PKA)-dependent manner. Here, we show that oncostatin M, but not cAMP, promotes the A-kinase anchoring protein (AKAP)-dependent anchoring of the PKA regulatory ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wojtal KA,Hoekstra D,van Ijzendoorn SC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ELMO2 belongs to a family of scaffold proteins involved in phagocytosis and cell motility. ELMO2 can simultaneously bind integrin-linked kinase (ILK) and RhoG, forming tripartite ERI complexes. These complexes are involved in promoting β1 integrin-dependent directional migration in undifferentiated epidermal keratinoc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jackson BC,Ivanova IA,Dagnino L

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling via the Ras pathway involves sequential activation of Ras, Raf-1, mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MKK), and the extracellular signal-regulated (ERK) group of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases. Expression from the c-Fos, atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), and myosin light chain-2 (MLC-2) promoter...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Thorburn J,Carlson M,Mansour SJ,Chien KR,Ahn NG,Thorburn A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-distance transport is crucial for polar-growing cells, such as neurons and fungal hyphae. Kinesins and myosins participate in this process, but their functional interplay is poorly understood. Here, we investigate the role of kinesin motors in hyphal growth of the plant pathogen Ustilago maydis. Although the micr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Schuchardt I,Assmann D,Thines E,Schuberth C,Steinberg G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroids and growth factors control neuronal development through their receptors under physiological and pathological conditions. We show that PC12 cells harbor endogenous androgen receptor (AR), whose inhibition or silencing strongly interferes with neuritogenesis stimulated by the nonaromatizable synthetic androgen ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Di Donato M,Bilancio A,D'Amato L,Claudiani P,Oliviero MA,Barone MV,Auricchio A,Appella E,Migliaccio A,Auricchio F,Castoria G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein 1B (MAP1B) is essential for neural development. Besides the abundant expression in neurons, MAP1B recently was found in myelinating oligodendroglia. Moreover, MAP1B deficiency causes delayed myelin development, suggesting the functional importance of MAP1B in oligodendroglia. However, mo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhao L,Ku L,Chen Y,Xia M,LoPresti P,Feng Y

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myo4p, a single-headed and nonprocessive class V myosin in budding yeast, transports >20 different mRNAs asymmetrically to the bud. Here, we determine the features of the Myo4p motor that are necessary for correct localization of ASH1 mRNA to the daughter cell, a process that also requires the adapter protein She3p an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bookwalter CS,Lord M,Trybus KM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells eliminate misfolded proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via a conserved process termed ER-associated degradation (ERAD). Central regulators of the ERAD system are membrane-bound ubiquitin ligases, which are thought to channel misfolded proteins through the ER membrane during retrotranslocatio...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhang T,Xu Y,Liu Y,Ye Y

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, nutrient starvation induces the bulk degradation of cellular materials; this process is called autophagy. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, most of the ATG (autophagy) genes are involved in not only the process of degradative autophagy, but also a biosynthetic process, the cytoplasm to vacuol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kabeya Y,Kamada Y,Baba M,Takikawa H,Sasaki M,Ohsumi Y

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rab11 effector Rab11-family interacting protein 2 (Rab11-FIP2) regulates transcytosis through its interactions with Rab11a and myosin Vb. Previous studies implicated Rab11-FIP2 in the establishment of polarity in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells through phosphorylation of Ser-227 by MARK2. Here we examine th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lapierre LA,Avant KM,Caldwell CM,Oztan A,Apodaca G,Knowles BC,Roland JT,Ducharme NA,Goldenring JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00